Isaiah 61:8
New King James Version
8 “For (A)I, the Lord, love justice;
(B)I hate robbery [a]for burnt offering;
I will direct their work in truth,
(C)And will make with them an everlasting covenant.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 61:8 Or in
Isaiah 61:8
New American Standard Bible
8 For I, the Lord, (A)love justice,
I hate robbery [a]in the burnt offering;
And I will faithfully give them their reward,
And make an (B)everlasting covenant with them.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 61:8 Or with malice
Isaiah 61:8
Amplified Bible
8
For I, the Lord, love justice;
I hate robbery with [a]a burnt offering.
And I will faithfully reward them,
And make an everlasting covenant with them.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 61:8 Another reading is wrongdoing or malice, but by itself either would hardly be an improvement. Some prefer to read with as “and,” which requires the assumption of a scribal error that is possible though not found in existing manuscripts. It would also raise the question of why robbery is singled out among other kinds of wrongdoing. In the Talmud the verse is taken to refer literally to the theft of an animal which the thief intends to offer as a sacrifice. The point is that the offering is unacceptable even though everything actually belongs to God and the thief arguably is only returning to God what is His.
Isaiah 61:8
King James Version
8 For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
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